Cleopatra: A Royal Voluptuary by Von Wertheimer, Oskar - 1931

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. first edition. hardcover. Book VG-: age wear/dust to boards and spine, paint spots on rear board, mild toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 8vo 326pp. stated first edition. from Preface: "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, has from time immemorial made the strongest appeal to the imagination of men. She is the most outstanding example of the sphinx in woman--the creature designed by mature to shed lustre and enchantment on life, buit also to prove its undoing. Even hundreds of years after her death men of the highest intellectual attainments continued to fall beneath her magic spell. And could any woman fail to envy her powers of fascination? [. . .] The present work is a fresh attempt to understand the personality of this great woman. It is hoped that the reader will not allow the somewhat lengthy preliminary discussion concerning Alexandria, the family of the Ptolemies, Rome, and Ptolemy XIII, the Flute-player, to prevent him from perusing… Read More

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth with titles in bright gilt and art decco Egyptian design in black, red and silver on cover. 325 pages, index. Translated from the German and with 32 illustrations. Bookplate to front pastedown and previous owner's name and 1931 date in faded ink on front endpaper.Text clean with very light even toning to supple pages. Very good copy in nicely designed dust jacket with a chip at top of spine not affecting text.Creases and some darkening to brown jacket which is in a mylar protector. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket in a mylar protector. [see photos].

Hardcover. .. Versión española de M. Rodríguez Rubí. Barcelona. Edit. Juventud. 1937. 2ª edic. 22x14 cm. 320 págs. guardas con mapas. Cartoné edit.

.- Barcelona. 1932. Juventud. 8º mayor. 400 p. Con 1 lámina. Tela. . . .

s-Gravenhage, HP Leopold's Uitg Mij 1930. Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title spine and frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece portrait, 296pp., illustrations, bibliography, folded map at the rear.

1937. 2ª edición. Cubierta deslucida, moteado. Juventud Barcelon 317 pág 22x14 cm Tapa dura, tela Biografía de Cleopatra. Traducción de M. Rodríguez Rubí.

Philadelphia:: J. B. Lippincott,, 1931.. First edition.. original decorated red cloth in dust jacket.. A bright, near fine copy in a jacket with traces of edge wear and tiny chips at the extremities. . 8vo,. Translated by Huntley Patterson. With 32 illustrations.

Barcelona: Juventud, 1937. 2ª edición. Tapa dura. Good. 320 pp. 15 x 22 cm. Buen estado.

1937. SEGUNDA. BUENO. JUVENTUD BARCELONA 397 pp 15 X 21,5 cm TAPA DURA LOMO PIEL CONSERVA TAPAS ORIGINALES

1937. 2ªEdicion. Juventud Barcelona 400pp 15,5x22 Tela editorial Version española M.Rodríguez. Biografia, historia. Numerosas láminas en negro fuera de paginacion